Robertson Davies biography

The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order." Robertson Davies A Voice from the Attic (1951) Robertson Davies was born on August 28, 1913, in the small village of Thamesville, Ontario. He was son …

…the bottom of it. (The interview with Robertson Davies by American Way) It is a curious book which draws heavily on Davies's love of myth and knowledge of small-town mores. The narrator, like Davies, is of immigrant Canadian background, with a father who runs the town paper. What the narrator's life in this novel is Davies wants to experience. Sources: http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~terning/bios/Davies.html http://www.amk.ca/davies/cover_jan96